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@OreoRockstar said in Pitching:

My biggest complaint is how hard it is to bury pitches in the dirt or low....that shouldn’t be the case, as you have to think if a pitcher wants one in the dirt , it will be in the dirt, not a foot higher at bottom of strike zone.....

The thing is, it’s easy to lay off a pitch like a sinking change up or curveball if it’s really low into the dirt. The really deceptive pitches look like they’re in the zone until they drop off the table at the last second. That means aiming six to ten inches below the zone to give that appearance of being a strike until it’s not. If I’m aiming six inches below the zone and it’s ending up six inches in the zone, I’m missing my spot by a foot on good or perfect input. I shouldn’t have to aim ten to twelve inches away from my intended target to succeed in hitting that spot with a control artist like Maddux. I’ve tried to find any sense in it and I can’t. I’m using the pitch trail which shows the flight of the ball allowing for the break of the pitch and I’m hitting the meter perfectly. There’s really no excuse.

@Hikes83 said in Analysis of an opposite field home run:

In all honesty, when I saw it in real time, the swing looked good, I was even surprised it wasn’t hit harder. The overhead view pretty much confirmed what I saw in real time but the feedback given looks incredibly off.

Maybe just me?

Yeah, with this second example showing the base hit by MVP Trout, everything looks natural with the swing and also the batted ball outcome as you said. I’ve been trying to account for the information given in the handbook and use that alongside the feedback to make sense of what’s happening. Here, the feedback given is absolutely atrocious on all fronts though, both in the pause menu batter analysis and in game HUD.

Each of those rare are like 15k. Manny machado is 250k. Lmao

I think alot of it might have to do with the dynamic difficulty levels. For example someone who isnt as far along on the XP level will get better results that someone who is already on the prestige level. I started late(july 4th) and at the beginning i was crushing anything and everything that crossed the plate. Every perfect/perfect was a HR. Now that Im almost thru Gold, its not happening as much and if I want a HR I better use the power swing. Thats my thoughts anyways

@ComebackLogic said in Missed Connections:

You were wearing hot pink with lime green trim, teleporting around the outfield grass at Main Street Field on Sunday. I was the guy wearing the black uni with a bat at home plate, flailing around like I was drowning.

I couldn’t help but admire your style, indeed, I was just trying to work up the courage to take a pitch or work a count to break the ice somehow, but then you were gone. Disconnected. I really feel like we should do this again, maybe for a little longer and see where things take us. PM me x.

+1

@ComebackLogic said in Early swings:

@raesONE said in Early swings:

@ComebackLogic said in Early swings:

We need that Chopper Bones guy from ‘18 to come back and post some garbled nonsense. That was the greatest post I’ve ever read on TSN.

Ah man I missed that. I was probably sent on vacation by the SDS mods during that period.

Guy was either not an English speaker or totally illiterate, he’d got the immortal Chipper in ‘18 and was struggling with the same issues we all were in ‘18, good/good pop ups and line outs. So he came on here to rant and generally lose his [censored].

Now, I’m paraphrasing, because it was a long time ago, but in his wall of capitalised text and exclamation points, he’d said something like - “WHY is Chopper Bones hot bombs only to drop tracks on GoOD TiMiNg?!?!” Nothing made sense, but he was clearly totally enraged. The whole post was a glorious mess and gave me much hilarity.

Lmao that sounds hilarious, shame I missed that.

I like your leaderboard idea, except for the fact that this year proved that people will just beg for stats and boost them. There would be even more "give me x and I quit" team names. I'm not sure there is a way to implement that without people acting like morons.

I also like your every card idea if the rewards/requirements are small enough that people don't bother boosting and just accrue them naturally. It would just be a nice little bonus you don't really have to think about that pops up from regular gameplay with trying out new cards. Reminds me of the career missions from 17 on a much smaller scale.

The shark idea seems like a more complicated BR with 9 inning games. I do like the risking it all aspect of the final round, but based on the amount of RNG in this game it would probably just [censored] me off if I was far in a run and lost due to nonsense. That's a lot of wasted time with 9 inning games. I would likely avoid that mode.

I'm not sure how many years of DD moments have been in the game but this is my first year doing a few here and there. For the most part Tatis Jr. was the main card I wanted and of course being a Padre fan had to have. That's what got me looking into it. I actually didn't think it was too difficult or that much of a grind, wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I would MUCH rather do that kind of stuff than have to tally up stats with particular cards online. When I play a ranked season game I like to play with my best team possible giving me the best chance to win that particular game. I hate the idea of having to play some random card that I normally wouldn't just get accumulate stats with it. It also gives me something to do within the game if I only have a half hour or so to play. Maybe not enough time to jump into a RS game but enough to knock out a moment or two.

My opinion. For $60, content should not be locked by a paywall or grind wall.

To me, I tried one more time with this game and it's not there for me. My opinion. The gameplay has not improved.

This is not baseball. This is a baseball card collector simulator.

@ComebackLogic said in Can anyone from SDS explain this?:

https://twitter.com/sweedy1407/status/1270083554211500036?s=21

Here’s another fine example of online gameplay this year, with actual outcomes not matching results. Well, it was always going to be an out regardless, you might say. Oh, well. That’s okay then, I guess.

Ball was clearly on trajectory to head into the outfield based on your input but game already decided no matter what you did it was gonna be an out

@joshjays44 said in Can we be specific?:

@olivegarden2 said in Can we be specific?:

@joshjays44 said in Can we be specific?:

@mikehousecb said in Can we be specific?:

Playing someone prestige level/World Series banner and Destroying them (sometimes not deservingly), then playing and losing to someone bronze level with a [censored] record who, and the check swing everything they don't make contact with and realizing this game has nothing to do with skill.

Avoid playing online noobs, there are tons of them....like hippies accumulating on a rock festival.

Joshua Jays may I ask you why you comment this stuff?

Its the truth that's why, should I sugar coat things so casuals can continue to live in their fake bubble?

Only in the world of Joshie people say things like you

Team Affinities will have the best cards this year, no need to buy stubs, no need to rip packs, just grind the game modes you want to complete. I can dig that.

@b00std_mark_II said in An Apology. To SDS and Fellow Members:

The graphics setting in my 5 yr old Sony tv seems to make my screen more pixelated however I use one that says game mode and changed all my setting similar to yours. I noticed the biggest difference when I found a setting for three picture options I chose vivid over neutral and warm and the tv completely changed and my under 500 record online is now 20 games over 500

Nice man, glad you got it worked out. I’d definitely recommend tweaking your settings to anyone who is struggling, I was blown away by the difference it made for me.

My pitcher did a few of those last night on RS. It was really weird.

This post confused me because I skimmed it (my fault). Haha. I went to your link and read (reduced timing window), And got frightened. Haha. The timing window in this year’s game isn’t very large. So when I read that, I was thinking I’d see pitchforks this morning on here. Took me a good 5 minutes to realize I was reading last year’s notes.

Sds hasn’t been transparent on everything they change in every update so why start now

@joshjays44 said in Patch 1.07:

Comebacklogic is one of the leaders of the Tin Hat movement here on this forum.

There is comeback logic in the game — look at perks...that’s not even a question. It’s always been there it’s never leaving just accept it. Denying it is more tin hat then recognizing it. It’s not a coincidence that this game is completely filled with late game heroics. It’s literally in almost every game I’ve played. For and against me.